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Archaeological Investigation and Identification of USS Independence Aircraft Through Telepresence-Enabled Exploration (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell E Matthews. James P. Delgado. Megan Lickliter-Mundon. Michael L. Brennan. John G Lambert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. August 2016 saw the first archaeological survey conducted at the wreck of USS Independence (CVL22), a USN carrier scuttled off California in 1951 following use in atomic testing. A team of experts in nautical archaeology, physics, marine biology and historic aviation worked to document the sunken warship...